Edwards AFB News

  • U.S. air power on full display at L.A. County Air Show

    An F-35A Joint Strike Fighter from the 461st Flight Test Squadron at Edwards was one of several Air Force assets on display at the 2017 L.A. County Air Show March 25-26. Tail number AF-01 was joined at General William J. Fox Airfield in Lancaster, California, by a C-17 Globemaster III from Travis

  • U.S. General officers visit Kyrgyz school

     What's the one thing that will inevitably make a grown woman burst into tears? Airmen from the Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan, including Gen. Donald Hoffman, Commander of Air Force Materiel Command, found out the answer Feb. 9, 2010.They handed out clothing - including warm coats, gloves and

  • U.S. Navy Teammate is Edwards Warrior of the Week

    Name:  Andrew JohnsonRank: Petty Officer 2nd ClassRate: Hospital Corpsman Second Class (Air Warfare)Position: Squadron Corpsman Unit: Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 764Hometown: Roswell, New Mex.Previous Assignments: VAQ-163, Squadron Corpsman, Atsugi, Japan (Forward deployed on USS Kitty Hawk,

  • U.S. Public Health Command issues E. coli outbreak warning

    The E. coli outbreak has left several dead and hundreds ill across Europe. Germany and the United Kingdom are the hardest hit, but there are reported cases in Sweden, Spain, Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, and the Czech Republic.There are 16 dead and more than 1,000 sick, including nearly 400

  • U.S. Senate confirms Schaefer's nomination to major general

    The United States Senate confirmed President Donald Trump's nomination of Brig. Gen. Carl Schaefer, 412th Test Wing commander, for promotion to the rank of major general. The Senate released confirmations March 22 of dozens of general and flag officers nominated for promotion by the president.

  • U.S. Test Pilot School graduates Class 15B

    Twenty new test pilots and flight test engineers will enter the test world June 10 as Class 15B graduates from the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School.Each graduate is awarded a Master of Science in Flight Test Engineering from Air University.It was the culmination of an intense, 48-week program that

  • UAV crashes on Edwards AFB

    A Global Observer unmanned aerial vehicle crashed at approximately 2:30 a.m. today near the southwest corner of Rogers Dry Lakebed. There were no injuries or damage to property on the ground.Global Observer is a Joint Capability Technology Demonstration program.The cause of the crash is under

  • UCAS-D flight test team honored twice by 412th Test Wing

    The Air Force has recognized for operational excellence the U.S. Navy/Northrop Grumman Corporation flight test team that successfully conducted first and subsequent flights of the Navy‟s X-47B unmanned aircraft earlier this year.The team, which performed its work as part of the Navy's Unmanned